appoint

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To select or designate to fill an office or a position.
• transitive verb To fix or set by authority or by mutual agreement.
• transitive verb To furnish; equip.
• transitive verb Law To direct the disposition of (property) to a person or persons in exercise of a power granted for this purpose by a preceding deed.

from The Century Dictionary.

• . To make fast or firm; found; establish; secure.
• To constitute, ordain, or fix by decree, order, or decision; decree; command; prescribe.
• To allot, set apart, or designate; nominate or authoritatively assign, as for a use, or to a post or office.
• To settle; fix, name, or determine by authority or upon agreement: as, they appointed a time and place for the meeting.
• In law, to fix the destination of (property) by designating a person or persons to take the use of an estate created by a preceding deed or will, conferring on the appointor the power so to do.
• . To point at by way of censure; arraign: as, “appoint not heavenly disposition,” Milton, S. A., 1. 373.
• To provide with what is requisite; equip.
• To agree upon; decide upon or settle definitely.
• Synonyms To prescribe, establish, direct. To assign, destine, constitute, create. To furnish, supply.
• To ordain; resolve; determine.
• In law, to exercise a power of appointment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
• transitive verb To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
• transitive verb To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
• transitive verb To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
• transitive verb obsolete To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.
• transitive verb (Law) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed.
• transitive verb [Obs.] to resolve.
• intransitive verb To ordain; to determine; to arrange.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive : To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
• verb transitive : To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
• verb transitive : To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
• verb transitive : To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
• verb transitive , (Law): To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance;—said of an estate already conveyed. --Alexander Mansfield Burrill. Kent.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
• verb furnish
• verb create and charge with a task or function